Bradley Burston, a longtime columnist for Israel's Haaretz newspaper, is a recipient of the Eliav-Sartawi Award for Mideast Journalism, presented at the United Nations in 2006.His columns have been quoted in The New York Times, Foreign Policy, the New Yorker, The Nation, Politico, and Dissent. He has appeared as a commentator on the BBC, NPR, ABC Nightline and CNN.During the first Palestinian uprising of the late 1980s, he served as Gaza correspondent for the Jerusalem Post, and was the paper's Military Correspondent in the 1991 Gulf War. In the 1990s, he covered Middle East peace talks and Israeli politics for the Reuters news agency. In 2000, he became a founding editor of Haaretz newspaper's online English online edition, writing a column called "A Special Place in Hell," from which this collection was compiled.A native of Los Angeles, he moved to Israel after graduation from Berkeley. He was part of a group which established Kibbutz Gezer, between Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. He served in the IDF as a combat medic, later studying medicine in Beer Sheva for two years before turning to journalism.
